As Julia looked into the Barnabas-free mirror, and looked and looked and looked, I thought to myself: "She's seen what she wanted to see. Time to put away the mirror - fast!" But then I thought: "What a sight!" If I were looking at something unbelievable like that, I too might have trouble tearing my eyes away from it. Anyway, Julia probably wanted to get caught.
Boy oh boy, Barnabas did not look happy after Julia left. I'm betting that he found an excuse to beat Willie within an inch of his life that night.
When Burke and Vicky were having a drink together in the Blue Whale, there was no mention of their dust-up at Collinwood a few days ago. And once again Burke's being a fool. MB mentioned, if I remember correctly, that Anthony George wasn't exactly a nobody in the soap world, so maybe the thought was that this Burke was such a ladykiller that viewers would love him no matter how much of a jackass he was. But he's giving Vicky absolutely no reason to drop her interest in the Past.
What exactly is going on with Vicky? She hasn't imagined everything she thinks she imagined: Sarah at the Old House party was real, and Maggie in Eagle Hill Cemetery was real, and Sarah singing in Josette's room was real. And, as I've said before, an interest in the past and in the people who lived in the past is very reasonable. But the music box has some sort of bewitching effect, and I'm assuming that the feeling of safety she claims to have in the Old House is also intended to be of not exactly natural origin. Barnabas hasn't bitten her, so she is not in his power, and it seems to me that at this point in his career, the only way he obtains power over people is from biting them - so what force is working here?
